Crop Growing Times
Don't waste your money on anything less than quality soil as this just adds to grow time as well as the number of times needed to be watered.
I most times can't remember the growing times as is the same with most new players. There are a lot of players give up after crops die too often. Also I have gotten a lot of miss information from players who say to water at odd hours. The watering time is within 24 hours. Right now wiki says to just give the crop a pull to check if they are ready to pick. This will not do as a lot of players can't just tug on crops every few hours. The Farmers Almanac only tells how long since planted and how long since last watered.
BTW Quality Soil sold in Cubit Store is actually called Great Soil but for some reason CC doesn't really care to make changes that don't affect their economy.
All times listed below are in Quality Soil.
1. Tomatoes - 30 hours
2. Potatoes - 45 hours
3. Corn - 60 hours
4 Eggplant - 80 hours
5. Wheat - 120 hours
I most times can't remember the growing times as is the same with most new players. There are a lot of players give up after crops die too often. Also I have gotten a lot of miss information from players who say to water at odd hours. The watering time is within 24 hours. Right now wiki says to just give the crop a pull to check if they are ready to pick. This will not do as a lot of players can't just tug on crops every few hours. The Farmers Almanac only tells how long since planted and how long since last watered.
BTW Quality Soil sold in Cubit Store is actually called Great Soil but for some reason CC doesn't really care to make changes that don't affect their economy.
All times listed below are in Quality Soil.
1. Tomatoes - 30 hours
2. Potatoes - 45 hours
3. Corn - 60 hours
4 Eggplant - 80 hours
5. Wheat - 120 hours
Comments
http://forums2.cubiccastles.com/index.php?p=/discussion/16549/farmers-almanac/p1
Check on the spoiler in "Crop Info", it shows you the exact growth time and more.
I would advice you to get the almanac as soon as possible so you won't have to pull on your crops to see if the are ready.
This link also gives more information on crops. http://forums2.cubiccastles.com/index.php?p=/discussion/16549/farmers-almanac/p1
The Almanac should also give time till pick in addition to the time since planted and time last watered. Our loss is CC's gain as we would have to buy more seeds if crops die.
CC knows all crop growing times as this information is written in the game code so why not let us know this information instead of being so vague on the time? Remember we are dealing with very young children and some have not yet learned how to multiply by 6 yet.
I also cannot tell if Yumberries or Frostberries have been picked or even which is which on my farm unless seperated and marked.
So now when I plant crops, I post a sign telling pick time as I no longer need to water by cans. Then I set an alarm with my Alexa device so I know when to pick.
I wouldn't mind leaving a field of full grown crops if timing of harvesting had to be put off and besides it would look better to visit a farm with full grown crops than acres of withered crops. wouldn't you think?
Crops grow faster in quality soil but the cc store doesn't call them that for some weird reason.
Crops grow time is what it is & I really doubt the devs will ever change anything about farming because there is no profit for them to do it.
In Quality soil grow times are not so bad & farming is so much better with sprinklers. I find things to do and come back when they are fully grown. I mostly grow corn because it is the best profit mostly because the seeds are way less than wheat and 2 crops can be grown in the 120 hours wheat takes. I do grow other crops as I need them to cook decoration foods I sell.
That profit picture only gives you the gross payback & not the net profit when you deduct your investment of seeds & time to grow and how many cycles of crops you get compared to others.
Note: these times others post is days, I give actual hours based on quality soil which is the best because there is no time deductions.
Seeds Cost for 2,500 seeds:( not counting merchant perk ).
Wheat - 30,000rc
Eggplant - 20,000rc
Corn - 10,000rc
Potato - 5,000rc
Tomato - 2,500rc
Gross Profit from average of 7,000 crops yield:
Wheat - 56,000rc
Eggplant - 42,000rc
Corn - 28,000rc
Potato - 14,000rc
Tomato - 7,000rc
Net Profit = Gross minus seeds cost:
Wheat - 26,000rc
Eggplant - 22.000rc
Corn - 18,000rc
Potato - 9,000rc
Tomato - 4,500rc
Hours in one week = 168 - Crop cycles you can grow in 168 hours:
Wheat - 1.4
Eggplant - 2.1
Corn - 2.8
Potato - 3.7
Tomato - 5.6
Net profit in 168 hours ( one week ):
Wheat - 36,400rc
Eggplant - 46,200rc
Corn - 50,400rc
Potato - 33,300rc
Tomato - 25,200rc
If you look at how many cycles of crops you can grow then look at how each seed cost doubles from tomato to wheat but the profit you get does not ( in eggplant ), the fact that corn seeds cost 1/3 that of wheat and you can grow 2 corn crop cycles in the same time as 1 wheat this is the sweet spot.
Yes eggplant only gives a 50% increase in the return as corn does but the cost of seeds are are double and the growing time is longer so in the end corn is the sweet spot of low up front cost and more return per week as any other crop at the return of 4 recubes per crop.